Circuit Des Yeux - Overdue lp (Ba Da Bing)

$21.99

"A few artists have had studios built for themselves—Jimi Hendrix’s
Electric Lady Studios a notable example—but certainly few albums have
had studios built for them. Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr and Cave’s
Cooper Crain erected USA Studios in Chicago’s Little Village
neighborhood over a few weeks in January 2013 for the two months of
recording sessions that make up Overdue. Founded with the acquisition of
a one-inch Otari MX-70 tape deck (modded to 8-track) and a vacancy in a
friend’s apartment, the studio endured hundreds of hours over its brief
flash of life. Fohr’s fifth LP under the
name Circuit des Yeux (her fourth to see release) weaves a sonic
Bildungsroman, documenting the transition from collegiate cloister in
pastoral Bloomington, Indiana, to the noisy, haggard Chicago South Side.
Even with the hand-constructed baffles and grandmother-sourced quilts
thickly covering the walls (and, intermittently, a light crust of sloppy
snow), the sounds of Little Village are literally embedded in the
recording. The strains of nearby norteños pierce the floorboards and the
elevated trains murmur just a few dozen feet from USA Studios’ flawed
sanctuary. The songs rise above the din, however—full orchestrations
(“Lithonia”) and damaged hallucinations (“Acarina”) alike. Fans
of Fohr’s prior, more experimental work are not catered to with this
immeasurably more sophisticated new effort—but nor will they, or any
other listener, be disappointed." - BA DA BING RECORDS